Nico Buchholz
Senior Advisor

Nico Buchholz
True quality comes from professional competence AND management skills.

#CPO #Aviation #Mobility #Development #Restructuring

Mr. Buchholz has over 30 years of experience in operational, commercial and strategic areas of the mobility industry. The combination of various worldwide positions with operators (airlines) and suppliers (engines; airplanes, trains) in management positions with a span of purchasing, strategy, sales, communication as well as customer service complements the KeyPlayer team with a worldwide unique knowledge. Building on his technical and economic university education and his various management positions at Airbus, Rolls Royce Germany and Lufthansa, he has been involved in all aircraft developments, including aircraft not yet certified. His activities, strategic direction and vision have led to the launch of the A220 and A320NEO, both based on the Geared TurboFan, to name just two projects. Further activities were in the area of M&A in the aviation (supplier) segment. He has also been active for many years in environmental sustainability and efficiency improvement projects and as a coach for start-ups worldwide. Furthermore, as a globally recognized expert, Mr. Buchholz is frequently in demand in many developments in mobility - economically, operationally, technically and environmentally, but also politically.

his experience

  • Academia: Aerospace Engineering (TU Berlin); Air Transport Mgmt ( Cranfield) ; i.a. General Mgmt (London Business School), Senior Executive Prg (Columbia New York)

  • Director to C-Level Board Member:

  • Marketing & Sales Airbus in Toulouse

  • Customer Business (mil & civil) Rolls-Royce

  • Fleet management Lufthansa Group

  • CPO and Borad Member Bombardier Group

  • Technical-operational project at Delta Air

  • Various board and advisor positions in companies with a connection to aviation

  • COO and CPO Services/Operations

  • Purchasing and supply chain: Management of the procurement of billion euro projects and international teams of up to several 1000 employees

  • Technological-economic evaluation of means of production

  • International (s) Projects /Project Management

  • Product developments in aviation

  • Restructuring

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